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B. W. FLANDERS.

DEODORIZ ER.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 6,19.

1,308,845. Patented JulyS, 1919.

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UNITED STATES PATENT oFFIcE.

BERT W. FLANDERS, OF NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE NEW LONDON CHEMICAL COMPANY, OF NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CON-' NECTICUT.

DEODORIZEB.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented July 8, 1919.

Application filed October 6, 1917. Serial No. 195,143. v

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BERT W. FLANoERs, a

' citizen of the United States, residing at New London, in the county of New London and State of Connecticut, have inventednew and useful Improvements in Deodorizers, of

an attachment for application when desired to the cage of an ordinary cooling fan, the

attachment being provided with a screen movably mounted so that, the stronger the current of air delivered by the fan, the larger the surface of the screen exposed to such current.

The invention contemplates the use of a trough for containing llquid deodorizer of any appropriate character, and the screen is carried by a skeleton structure pivotally mounted in the ends of the trough and provided with a blade struck by the air from the fan so as to turn the skeleton structure on its trunnions and expose more or less of the screen surface.

Details will be found in the following specification, and reference is made to the accompanying drawing wherein:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of this invention applied to the cage of an ordinary fan,

Fig. 2 is a central transverse section of the attachment on an enlarged scale, showing the screen in dotted lines as partially exposed,

Fig. 3 is a plan view, and

Fi 4 is a perspective view in detail of the skeleton member.

In the drawings I have used the letter F to indicate a fan of the common and well known type, and C its guard or wire cage, this being the ordinary article of domestic and oflice use and needing no further description herein. However, it will be seen from What follows that this attachment may be used in connection with any appropriate source of air. When employed in connection with a fan, as shown, I use clip plates 1 and 2 standing respectively inside and outside the front of the cage and connected by bolts 3 which pass through such cage, and the outer plate has a socket 4 into which the with any suitable hook-shaped support of the attachment is to be inserted. Still, any appropriate device might be employed whereby said hook could be supported in front of the source of air. As herein shown, the hook 5 is formed as a part of or attached to the trough.

The attachment itself comprises a preferably semi-circular trough having a body 10 and closed ends 11 of metal, and its top may be closed, as at 12, excepting for a slot 13 along its inner edge and part way along its ends, as at 14, as best seen in Fig. 3. The hook 5 may be formed as part of the body, and the metal will be suitably treated to prevent rust and possibly ornamented on its exterior so as to present a neat appearance.

In the ends 11 are holes or openings forming bearings for trunnions 15 at the extremities of a second trough-like element which is best seen in detail m Fig. 4. This comprises a semi-cylindrical body 16 of reticulated metal or screen wire, two ends 17 and rods 18, connecting the ends in addition to the connection produced by the main shaft 19 whose ends form said trunnions. At the inner side of the body is a metallic strip 20 rising above the upper edges of the ends 17 and extending between them, being preferably supported by carrying its lower edge around one of the rods 18, this element forming a lip for a. purpose yet to appear. Standards 21 rise from the main shaft 19, and connecting the upper ends is another strip of metal forming a blade 22. Finally a sheet of coarse fabric, such as cheese cloth, 23, is passed around and secured to the outside of the reticulated body 16 in any appropriate manner, as by stitching it thereto; or the fabric could be applied by bending over the ends of the screening 16, or otherwise. The fabric constitutes a wicking, and may be replaced when it becomes foul.

The attachment is applied to the cage C as suggested above, and the trough 10 filled deodorizing liquid, or charged with a deodoriz'er or plain water With the parts now standing disinfectant.

as seen in Fig. 1, as soon as the fan begins its rotation the current of air projected thereby strikes the blade 22 and rocks the inner or skeleton member on its trunnions 15 from the full-lined position in Fig. 2 to the position shown in dotted lines therein. This causes the screen body 16 and the wicking 23 thereon to rise at the inside through the slot 13,- the ends 17 rising partly through the slots 14. This in turn brings the lip 20 in front of the fan and to a greater or less degree cuts ofl' the blast of air against the blade 22. Therefore, the skeleton'memher is not turned ordinarily on its pivots farther than shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, as it is practically held in that position by the air blowing against the lip 20. If the fan should be speeded up or the blast of air should be strong, the skeleton member might turn a little farther than shown, and vice Versa. The air now blows directly through the wicking 22 and the screen wire 16 at what might be called the inner side of the skeleton member. This wicking is, of course, initially wet, {LSwlt has just arisen out of the disinfectant liquid within the trough, but its capillary attraction continues to draw the liquid upward and the result is that the air blown against and through this wicking is moistened and deodorized or otherwise treated before it reaches the point of use. As soon as the rotation of the fan ceases the parts resume their normal position so that practically no dust settles upon them because the top 12 practically closes the main trough. At this time the wicking is almost entirely submerged and, therefore, there is little or no evaporation of the liquid when the device is not in use.

What is claimed is:

1. A deodorizer comprising a substantially horizontal trough, means for supporting it within a blast of air, a rocking member pivotally mounted in and normally hanging within the trough, an absorbent sheet on said member, and an upstanding blade on the member adapted to be struck by the blast of air for turning the member on its pivots.

2. A deodorizing apparatus for insertion in a blast of air, the same comprising a tank having slots in its top and hearings in its ends, a skeleton member having a semicylindrical body of reticulated material, semi-circular ends, and a main shaft c0nnecting the latter and having trunnions engaging said bearings; a wicking carried by said body, and a blade rising from said shaft and adapted to be struck by the blast of air for turning the skeleton member and raising one end of said wicking through the slot in the top of the tank, into the blast of air. Y

3. A deodorizer comprising a semi-cylindrical trough, means thereon for supporting it within a blast of air, a rocking mem ber COIlSiStillg of semi-circular ends standirfg inside the ends of the trough, rods connecting their corners, a foraminous sheet connecting the rods and the curved edges of said ends, and a main shaft extending through the ends and projecting beyond them in trunnions journaled in the ends of the trough; an absorbent sheet surrounding the foraminous portion of said 11'l(.lll her, an imperforate strip connecting the inner corners of its ends, standards rising from said main shaft, and a blade connecting the standards, for the purpose set forth.

4. A deodorizer comprising a receptacle, an absorbent member disposed in the recep tacle and movable out of and into the same, and a blade connected and movable with the absorbent member; the said absorbent member and blade being adapted to be disposed in the path of a blast of air.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

BERT W. FLANDERS.

Witnesses N. L. COLLAMER, IRA M. CoMs'rooK. 

